Is physics dead? - Physics Forum

I apologize for my "Time Magazine" style title, but I was reading not long
ago about how the cost of the new supercolliders and other super-advanced
instrumentation has reached the point where it produces something like
"diminishing returns" and that as a result physics is losing its luster.

It never did have sex appeal. It is no more or less important
than your own heartbeat. But you aren't really aware of that
either... There is still much to do, and anything spent usually
pays back to the community it is sited in. It is still the
future...